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I would like to thank demond for his response! He set me in the right direction! For anyone else looking for an answer to this question, you will find it here...

http://www.mandrakehelp.com/identd-HOWT ... onfigStand

my server uses xinetd as a replacement for inetd. I found the ident.key, in it is the following...

zrotYPNON/TirjkxtjBqEYeA2g7ePqozWBp5p0SI4rw=
CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE TO A PASSPHRASE

I tried restarting identd without the -C[<keyfile>] arg and it still didnt matter

it is a shell I have root access to..

but there in lies my problem, the bot is not taking the shell username it is using something pretty wierd... TngMstr (U2FsdGVkX1@....)

might be a sysid or something cause it is the same for a couple different bots

Im having ident troubles too...

I tried the identd.tcl from, DarkDeviL and although it did create the global reply "Tng", in oidentd.conf, it still didnt change the ident of the bot once it joined a channel.

oh... I do have oidentd server running on the shell

any other suggesttions?

I am running RHEL 3 and trying to set up a shell service. I got mostly everything installed and running, but when my bot connects to irc it shows up as: Joins: TngMstr (U2FsdGVkX@blah.blah.net) I believe the format for ident is: Username ident@host, so it appears the ident is screwed up. I have trie...